Note 353 – Is it ‘formally’ or ‘formerly’?

The word formally was underlined in the spell check just after I posted Note 352 yesterday, and it prompted me to change it to formerly so I quickly did (unfortunately without thinking). Whilst typing this blog today and running myself down thinking that I had spelt something wrong, I have now realised that I actually spelt it right to start with (for those that spotted it, I’ve just switched over and changed it back). The sentence that I wrote was:

“For all intents and purposes Chloe was the manager, even though she hadn’t formally been promoted”.

In the above sentence I meant ‘”..she hadn’t officially been promoted” so do you agree that I spelt it right?

The moral of the blog is: be cautious when using ‘spell check’ or at least click on the ‘explain’ option that WordPress provides, as that gives you the definitions. I didn’t do that yesterday as it was late and I was tired – shame on me!

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